Math 800, Spring 2008
Meetings
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| Mondays | Wednesdays | Fridays |
| Jan 25 Introduction | ||
| Jan 28 Basic Set Theory | Jan 30 Need for a Rigorous Set Theory | Feb 1 Equivalences and Partitions |
| Feb 4 Partially Ordered Sets | Feb 6 Partially Ordered Sets | Feb 8 Partially Ordered Sets |
| Feb 11 Complete Lattices | Feb 13 Complete Lattices | Feb 15 Lattices, cardinals |
| Feb 18 Cardinals of finite sets | Feb 20 Cantor-Bernstein theorem | Feb 22 Cardinals |
| Feb 25 Cardinals | Feb 27 Cardinals | Feb 29 Cardinals |
| Mar 3 Axiom of choice | Mar 5 Axiom of choice, continuity | Mar 7 Axiom of choice |
| Mar 10 Axiom of choice | Mar 12 Bourbaki fixpoint theorem | Mar 14 Maximal principles |
| Mar 17 Maximal principles | Mar 19 Equivalents of axiom of choice | Mar 21 Infinite sets |
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Spring recess |
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| Cesar Chavez Holiday | Apr 2 Infinite cardinal arithmetic | Apr 4 Infinite cardinal arithmetic |
| Apr 7 Infinite cardinal arithmetic | Apr 9 Boolean logic | Apr 11 Comparability theorem |
| Apr 14 Homework list, Boolean logic | Apr 16 Syntax | Apr 18 Syntax |
| Apr 21 Deduction theorem | Apr 23 Use of 3-valued logic | Apr 25 Implicational completeness |
| Apr 28 Boolean completeness, roadmap | Apr 30 First-order syntax | May 2 First-order syntax |
| May 5 First-order semantics | May 7 First-order logical axioms | May 9 Henkin-Hasenjaeger theorem |
| May 12 Goedel completeness theorem | May 14 Incompleteness and undefinability theorems. First student report. | |
| May 21 08:00-10:30 Student reports. Term paper and all homework due. | ||
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